First Post: Getting into raising sheep

[joshmod]

Hi All,

I just wanted to pop in again to say thanks for all of your replies. Though I think it may take us a while to find the kind of property that we need to see this dream come true, your feedback just keeps confirming that we are perhaps not crazy. Thanks for the help and please feel free to contribute more if you feel led; EVERYTHING is helpful.

 

[bonbean01]

You are totally NOT crazy!!! We started with sheep 6 years ago...no shearing here as they are hair/meat sheep and there is no market in our area for wool. We started out cautiously...bought a lamb ram and a lamb ewe and read everything we could on sheep! I'll tell you, we totally fell in love with these two and when our very first lamb was born, we were hooked big time!!! We don't have many acres and our limit for our grass means we can't get more than 10 here, but that's enough for us old timers.

We spend alot of time with our sheep and lambs because we enjoy them. Can't imagine life without them now...just love these animals! Before getting a ram...read everything you can on that...we blew it with our first ram and did everything wrong and he became dangerous. That was something I wish we'd known right from the start!

Dream and make your dream come true...you will enjoy it so much!!!!